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Thank you all guys! I gave the laptop to a friend of mine and he managed to get rid of it, don't know what he did though.

I opened it because thought was from the Fraternity and was PM. Was the same message Bluebomber got, but of course had my name:

LadyXAdmin wrote:
Dear, Bluebomber4evr!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Bluebomber4evr
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Sincerely, Forum Administration www.fraternityofshadows.com.

When I clicked at the link a program called security tool was installed to my computer and said I had like 37 trojans and had to pay to get a program that can clean my computer. Of course I didn't pay. Then I kept getting messages of warnings and how I should clean the trojans otherwise will lose important information etc. The messages were spams and appeared every 10-15 sec! When I run my antivirus my computer got restarted automatically and I couldn't see the desktop only the spams...Then I got it to my friend and he did his magics and now my laptop is ok again.

I know I was stupid I thought it can be truth but on my defence I was just woke up and didn't have clear mind. Will be more careful in future. Thank you all again for your replies.
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Sorry again that you had to go through that. :(

I've had that one before too, and I think malwarebytes was the only way to kill it. Glad your friend could help.
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Bluebomber4evr wrote: To add to that: HijackThis!. Run that program and save a log, then copy and paste the log in the box here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ then click the "analyze" button. You'll see a list of all your registry entries and startup programs. Any nasty entries will have a red X by them. Go back into HijackThis! and fix all the entries that have a red X. This should help prevent the malware from coming back.
That. Hijackthis! is the best program out there against malware - though I would suggest you re-install your antivirus afterwards.
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Well, I've installed another little spambot countermeasure. New users will have to answer a really simple question (for humans), which I hope will be tricky for bots. Lets see if it does anything to cut down on the spammers...
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This thread is entirely spam.

In fact, everything that poster has ever written appears to be spam.

Location: "The Gambia"? More like "The SPAMbia", amirite???
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yup, got it, thanks.
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This thread is not looking promising...
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A few magic missiles did the job and killed the ghoul.

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Looks like I've got a fake here:

http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/foru ... f=7&t=6592

veeeeery bottom of the post.
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I'm not so sure, Neo. The comment seems sincere and relevant to the thread. (they are awesome maps and pics, as usual for NeoTiamat/Isabella/lostboy Productions, Inc.). She's got no spam links in her post or profile. I'm thinking it's legit, though misplaced. I'll move the post into your OOC thread and keep a watchful eye on her future posts.
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Got your back, dude, come back in for a drink.

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